Quotes About Adaptation

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared.

Detrás de la fachada de la ciudad moderna, sigue morando el viejo mono desnudo. Sólo los nombres han cambiado: en vez de caza, decimos "trabajo"; en vez de campo de caza, "barrio comercial", en vez de cubil, "hogar", en vez de apareamiento, "matrimonio"; en vez de compañera, "esposa", etcétera.

As a species we may be technologically clever and philosophically brilliant, but we have not lost our animal property of being physically active;

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

You want the world to behave as you wish. It does not, hence your anger and your grief.

The world may be ever-changing and full of uncertainties, but walking away is not the answer. World-rejection, according to the epic, is dangerous and destructive.

Life is like a river. You can struggle to change its course but ultimately it will go its own way. Bathe

the social body also needs to die and be reborn, locate itself in the new structure.

those who live by the law of the jungle must be ready to die by the law of the jungle.

Rules always change in times of war and in times of peace, as they do in times of fortune and misfortune.

Life is like a river. You can struggle to change its course but ultimately it will go its own way. Bathe in it, drink it, be refreshed by it, share it with everyone, but never fight it, never be swept away by its flow, and never get attached to it. Observe it. Learn from it.

Civilization comes into being when the small fish is rescued from the big fish; civilization comes to an end when the fish keeps growing bigger than its pond.

Anything goes as one fends for oneself.

Herons and cranes often stand on one foot, to fool fish into believing their solitary legs are reeds. When a fish comes near a heron's leg, it immediately catches hold of its hapless prey.

But the world is constantly changing. Things will never remain constant. If we focus only on the coming & going of fortune, we will always be anxious & frustrated. On the other hand, if we focus on learning with every rise & fall, we will keep growing & generating internal Shakti rather than depending on external Durga for our survival.

She was not born, but rather became, Jane Austen.

Life is not all about rainbows, not all about butterflies and happiness, so you should know how to shower when the rain comes.

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

La curva es la forma que mejor nos acomoda porque podemos armonizar y deshacer nuestras diferencias. Mi estatura y la tuya, el peso, la distribución de los huesos, las bocas. La almohada sostiene equilibradamente nuestras cabezas, separa las respiraciones.

Dwindling energy is one of the most boring things about being old. From time to time you get a day when it seems to be restored, and you can't help feeling that you are 'back to normal', but it never lasts. You just have to resign yourself to doing less--or rather, taking more breaks than you used to in whatever you are doing. In my case I fear that what I most often do less of is my duty towards my companion rather than indulgence of my private inclinations.

The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.

Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don't value punctuality as highly as the Swiss, Germans or North Americans and have a pretty flexible idea of what's considered "on time.